Mosques and the Production of Belonging (B04)

• Subject Area: Empirical Social Research
• Term: since 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 501120656

The project examines the ways in which mosques function as an infrastructure for the production of belonging that relate not only to local (religious) communities, but also to national and transnational "communities". Through ethnographic field research in a mosque associated with the Turkish-Muslim umbrella organization DITIB, the negotiations around different affiliations are analyzed, not least in intergenerational perspectives on the (imagined) homeland Turkey and on Turkish-national or Turkish-Muslim loyalties.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1604: Production of Migration
• Applicant Institution: Universität Osnabrück
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Rauf Ceylan